Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
Sylvia Martinez and Gary Stager have been invited to The White House to celebrate the start of the National Week of Making (June 17-23) at a kick-off event on Friday, June 17, 2016. This gathering will preview the Nation of Makers events and bring …
This is a report from one of the participants at a two-day Invent To Learn workshop in Alberta, Canada… “Last week ETCATA hosted an Invent to Learn workshop with Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez. This experience provided Alberta educators with two full days …
Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom is being translated into Arabic! Stay tuned for the announcement of availability.
A new website and initiative has just launched in the Netherlands at makereducation.nl. It is in Dutch, but I got the scoop from Karien Vermeulen of the Waag Society in Amsterdam. The initiative is set up to: Offer schools the opportunity to …
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While Gary and I were in Amsterdam, we were invited to speak at the grand opening of a new makerspace at the The Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences. Gary was interviewed by one of the student journalists covering …
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Join Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez for three days of project based learning and critical thinking in a makerspace environment Register here ALL participants will receive a copy of “Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering and Engineering in the Classroom” to support their learning and ability to …
ISTE 2015 will be June 27-July 1 in Philadelphia, PA. This is an annual “big event” for technology loving educators, with upwards of 15,000 attendees and a huge vendor floor for new edu-gizmos and gadgets. Two years ago, the word “maker” was …
GUIDE TO CREATING AND INVENTING WITH TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM Written by Gary Stager for Intel® Australia Ever wanted to learn how to set up a maker space in your school? Or introduce students to an exciting new world of creating new …
Super-Awesome Sylvia will be signing copies of her book, “Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Sylvia Project Book Super-Simple Arduino” at Bay Area Maker Faire. Come buy a book and have it signed by the author/illustrator herself! Where: littleBits Electronics – Booth #2245 – Zone 2 inside …
A day of hard fun is in store for one and all! In 1971, our friends Cynthia Solomon and Seymour Papert published a paper that changed the world. “Twenty Things to Do with a Computer” not only explored computers as …